Puducherry offers up to Rs 40,000 to repair thatched homes of ex-servicemen: Who can apply?

Owning a safe home often means keeping it in good condition, but repair costs can be difficult for vulnerable households to meet. In Puducherry, the department of Sainik Welfare runs a welfare scheme that provides financial assistance for the re-thatching and repair of houses belonging to eligible ex-servicemen, widows of ex-servicemen and their dependants.Ex-servicemen and…

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‘Modi govt fears truth and non-violence’: Rahul Gandhi on Ken-Betwa protest crackdown | India News

Police cleared the protest site on July 19 NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said the Modi government fears “both truth and non-violent resistance”, days after police dispersed tribal protests against the Ken-Betwa river linking project in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh.“The tribal brothers and sisters of Madhya Pradesh had sat on a water satyagraha…

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Unhappy with $7 billion collateral bill that electricity company in the state called America’s Dairyland has sent, Oracle goes to court; says: Rule risks …

Oracle logo: For representative purpose Oracle has taken a Wisconsin electricity regulator to court over a massive $7 billion collateral requirement tied to its new artificial intelligence data center. The company warns the rule risks imposing “onerous financing costs” that could discourage future tech investments in the state. The dispute centres on the Public Service…

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Satarupa Majumder: From a sewing machine to a dream school: How this Kolkata teacher changed the lives of hundreds of children in the Sundarbans forever

In 2012, a Kolkata schoolteacher named Satarupa Majumder made a trip to the Sundarbans that would change the course of her life. What started as a small act of charity turned into a mission that has since brought quality, almost-free English-medium education to hundreds of children living on some of India’s most remote and cyclone-prone…

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NEET fast-track court’s first hearing stalls as CBI skips proceedings | India News

NEET fast-track court’s first hearing stalled as CBI skips proceedings NEW DELHI: The first hearing before Delhi’s newly designated fast-track court for the NEET paper leak case ended without any substantive proceedings on Monday after no lawyer appeared on behalf of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), prompting the court to adjourn the matter.The case…

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Jeff Bezos is secretly funding a mechanical clock inside a Texas mountain. Designed to run for 10,000 years it will play over 3.5 million unique sequences and challenge the scale of human time |

Out of everything that Jeff Bezos could be funding, a mechanical clock does not come to mind. But it seems some clock has been ticking in the mind of the Amazon founder who is quietly supporting the construction of a 10,000-year clock inside a Texas mountain.The work is called the Clock of the Long Now…

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Commonwealth Games: Gyaneshwari Yadav wins silver as India claims fourth weightlifting medal | Commonwealth Games News

Gyaneshwari Yadav during the women’s weightlifting 53kg Snatch during day four of the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, Monday, July 27, 2026. (AP) India’s weightlifting contingent added another Commonwealth Games medal on Sunday as Gyaneshwari Yadav clinched silver in the women’s 53kg final.It was India’s fourth weightlifting medal at the ongoing Commonwealth Games in…

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‘Could open floodgates’: Why Madras high court quashed govt jobs for Karur stampede victims’ kin | Chennai News

The Madras high court court also observed that the exercise of executive power must remain within constitutional limits. CHENNAI: In a setback to the C Joseph Vijay-led TVK government, the Madras high court‘s Madurai Bench on Monday set aside the state government’s order providing government jobs to relatives of those who died in the Karur…

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